Upgrading to V2 after T3 fried, recover old HD

deryck · Post by **deryck** » Sat Dec 28, 2019 08:58

So my old T3 died, there was much morning and sadness

Have ordered a new V2, currently waiting with much anticipation

Hoping I can put the olde HDD into a usb3 caddy and it will work, am I dreaming?

While I wait is there a way I can get things from the old HDD, back in the DP-P2 days WixFX did wonders, but that was a different era. I have tried mounting it on a linux box, but no luck, gparted did not recognise the file system. Is there a way to mount the drive from mac/windows/linux?

prl · Post by **prl** » Sat Dec 28, 2019 09:08

deryck wrote: ↑
Sat Dec 28, 2019 08:58
Hoping I can put the olde HDD into a usb3 caddy and it will work, am I dreaming?

If the HDD is still OK, that will work. Just don't restore your settings from the T3 onto the new box, especially if you use IceTV.

deryck wrote: ↑
Sat Dec 28, 2019 08:58
While I wait is there a way I can get things from the old HDD, back in the DP-P2 days WixFX did wonders, but that was a different era. I have tried mounting it on a linux box, but no luck, gparted did not recognise the file system. Is there a way to mount the drive from mac/windows/linux?

The internal HDD in a T3 (in fact, all T/U/V models) is formatted as ext4 by default. That's a very standard Linux filesystem type. Perhaps your Linux setup doesn't have ext4 drivers installed? Or perhaps the HDD was fried, too.

There may be ext4 drivers available for Windows. The last time I tried to use free ext4 drivers for MacOS, they didn't work properly (but it was a while ago).

deryck · Post by **deryck** » Sat Dec 28, 2019 09:34

Great thanks.

I will plug the drive in again and try it again, but sounds like operator error

MrQuade · Post by **MrQuade** » Sat Dec 28, 2019 10:11

Edit: OOps, turns out I didn't read it the question.

Gully · Post by **Gully** » Sat Dec 28, 2019 11:14

If you want to be able mount the T3 drive in your PC, search for a driver called Ext2Fsd and install it. Works well.